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2020-01-28 11:10:00
Opera Australia – Mozart’s Don Giovanni. January 24, 2020.
Joan Sutherland Theatre at Sydney Opera House. Stalls (Seat UXX, A$79.20). Story. See previous blog. Conductor – Zhong Xu. Don Giovanni – Luca Micheletti; Leporello – Shane Lowrencev; Donna Anna – Eleanor Lyons; Donna Elvira – Jane Ede; Don Ottavio – Juan de Dios Mateos; Zerlina – Anna Dowsley; Masetto – Richard Anderson; Commendatore – Gennadi Dubinsky. Somewhere over the Pacific we decided to see this opera. We saw this last May in Dresden during our European trip, and I wanted to see how the two companies compare. The Sydney Guidebook one can pick up at the airport usually contains a discount coupon for opera tickets. In our rush to get through immigration and customs we forgot to get a copy, good thing the Information booth at Arrivals level carries them. Docked at the Circular Quay Cruise Terminal is […]
2019-09-22 05:27:28
Our dear colleague, Xu Zhong returns to conduct the orechestra with a marvelous program featuri
2017-09-02 10:46:36
[…] a prodigy Like He Xingding, a magical talent Sustained as if with the celestial’s magic pills of Si Mountain[7] Or the Old Man’s star over the North Pole At one time, you saw only one spot on the leopard These days you are careful about measuring one’s flesh Although unworthy of the lowest servant You are humble enough to turn the doorknob As wise as Master Zhuang’s Old Man whose duck wouldn’t chatter Or Zhongtong, who knew much of the court Although the imperial slats lay in the middle of your tent How lonely you were in Jianwai Stalwart and erect, you do not forget to keep walking Although lonely, even sleeping you are awake The body should be hungry and lean As your tears long wash over Xing Of Yu’s tribute, consider the golden ding King Rao’s portrait recalls the 6 soup cauldrons All urge you to enter […]
2017-08-17 14:39:22
Happy To Hear That Official Cui At Tai Yuan Served The Imperial Censor, And Also Sends Regards To The 3rd And 2nd Year Fellow Exam Candidates One day, Shangyin told me, “I was summoned to the Emperor. Terrified and amazed, I kowtowed before him. He looked at me sternly and said “Shangyin, why do you upset everybody?” “What did you tell him?”, I asked. We were in the produce section of the Jusco supermarket at the junction of Shennan Boulevard and Honey Lake Park. “I said , ‘My liege, in the barbarian lands the populace in millions sing music called Thriller by a wild haired man-woman called Jackson. Far fewer people loved the far greater Song of the Earth by Mahler . When it was composed just a handful appreciated the incomparable Paysage or Chasse Neige of Liszt . ‘” A little girl walking by interjected, ‘Old fogy[1] […]
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